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by mankash666 8y ago
Because if Compnay XYZ disagrees with your politics, you should punish them? The same agency, ICE, does LOADS of good work, protecting America and it's citizens. Much like Microsoft (or any company)- that offers useful, widely deployed
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by mankash666 8y ago
While that may be true for something that's more production ready (like an AMD or Qualcomm chip), this project seems unlikely to affect negotiations. However, it's likely to cause panic at Intel for the long term. It may prompt In
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by mankash666 8y ago
Just a warning, maybe you're already aware of it Uber's secret sauce is the network effect bought by billions in subsidies, funded by VCs. The app and tech itself is probably easy to clone, and if no value. Please search for open
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by mankash666 8y ago
How's legitimacy relevant here? I'm not trying to place doubt, trying to make an honest observation that a result needs the majority of the board to vote for the measure.
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by mankash666 8y ago
The only effective way to achieve this is getting a majority of the board to vote for this. Everything else is mere virtue signalling without effect.
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by mankash666 8y ago
In that case, they need to be brought to court too!
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by mankash666 8y ago
All you've started here is that you dislike Microsoft. There's zero moral difference in Apple's actions on the app store and Microsoft from yesteryears
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by mankash666 8y ago
Regardless of your cherry-picking judgements that support your narrative, the fact that this in the supreme Court, and the fact that we're debating it on HN point to an uncertainty in legality. The structure of the free market doesn&#x
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by mankash666 8y ago
Who's arguing the app store inhibits handset competition? Did you even read the article? The argument is that Apple chokes app developers ON THE APP STORE. The existence of other handset manufactures is irrelevant
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by mankash666 8y ago
For paid apps, it does. App store revenues totalled some $60B in 2017, and guess which app store saw an overwhelming majority of those dollars flow through it. There's your market
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by mankash666 8y ago
Huh? "Here's item A that breaks the law - if you don't like it, don't buy it". That's the crux of your tirade. Apple's legal non-compliance cannot be justified by the existence of Android. Hence the lawsui
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by mankash666 8y ago
And by what legal authority did you just state that? Microsoft was forced to ship competitive browsers in the OS to avoid monopoly claims, but Apple - unlike Microsft, they won't even allow 'un-blessed' apps to RUN on the pho
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by mankash666 8y ago
Who said Apple is choking Android? Apple is choking app-developers within the iOS ecosystem.
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by mankash666 8y ago
Doesn't have ANY bearing on the fact that Apple is anti-competitive. No excuse for one company to break the just because others follow the law
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by mankash666 8y ago
From the wiki link: "Protectionism, tariffs and quotas which give firms insulation from competitive forces" This is indeed text-book protectionism
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by mankash666 8y ago
That's some fucked-up mental gymnastics of an excuse to explain the existence of the app-store. It's like having your refrigerator manufacturer enforce purchasing of groceries that he's vetted to save you from a salmonella in
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by mankash666 8y ago
This kind of behavior - where whole swaths of consumers pay inflated prices, and have choice severely restricted, but the company enforcing such monopoly gets away on a ludicrous technicality, needs to end. However you look at it, completel
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by mankash666 8y ago
Apple's gotten away with inexplicable mental gymnastics on locking down the app store. For those who don't remember, prior to the iPhone, one didn't need the blessing of the hardware maker to run the software of your choice o
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by mankash666 8y ago
This is reality of today's America - death threats against those you disagree with. The person!=policy. We may dislike Pai, but he's merely a pawn in a bigger game of chess. Frankly, I don't think he has the option of not pla
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by mankash666 8y ago
Don't make it personal about another HN member
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by mankash666 8y ago
60+47 = 127, that I rounded up to ~130, for marketing and operations . How much did Atlassian spend in marketing, or GitLab? Almost nothing (by design). How much does GitLab spend on office space? Almost $0 as they choose to do wisely with
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by mankash666 8y ago
While sold as a tax for the homeless, we've seen over and again how $50M entrusted to 6 people with little oversight really turns out. This is the right move
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by mankash666 8y ago
A politico/Frontline style investigative documentary needs to be happen on the inner workings of Mozilla. Their financial reports are full of red flags (~$130M on marketing and operations in 2016 consutituting ~33% of expenses!!!). The
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by mankash666 8y ago
1. Not all of the 1200 employees reside in the US. Which implies the U.S. salaries, on average, need to exceed your $140K estimate. IT DOES NOT!!! https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Mozilla-Salaries-E19129.htm 2. Not all
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by mankash666 8y ago
>>> AI applications for weapons and technologies that "gather or use information for surveillance," Couldn't be more ironic. Google's core business is surveillance and serving ads - all aided by ai. This whole t
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by mankash666 8y ago
Baseless. Amazon has sold non-Google Android for almost a decade. Google's abdroid has 0% penetration in China
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by mankash666 8y ago
I've ABSOLUTELY read the fabled financial report [1]. Things get even more suspicious if one nit-picks on it. Software development cost Mozilla $225M in 2016 and other expenses $135M. An unacceptable amount of expenses go into non-core
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by mankash666 8y ago
What exactly is being forced down your throat again? Device makers can fork and build whatever version of Android they want (like Amazon does with Fire tablets). So who's tying you to a chair and forcing Google down you?
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by mankash666 8y ago
I'd suggest you keep your personal judgements like 'fanatically' to yourself. HN steers clear of personal attacks
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by mankash666 8y ago
No it's not. You cannot wripe away a monopoly's revenue stream in the name of regulation, you can however ensure that the competition isn't harmed in any way. Google should simply offer a choice - install whatever competitor&

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